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Military service
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
21st Bn. Canadian Inf .
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. D. 18,
Digital gallery of Major Martin Louis Shepherd
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Grave Marker
Major Martin Louis Shepherd is buried in Sunken Road Cemetery, Contalmaison, Somme, France. This inscription to his memory is on the family grave marker in the Alexandria United Church Cemetery. -
Attestation Paper (front)
Attestation Paper Library and Archives Canada -
Attestation Paper (back)
Attestation Paper Library and Archives Canada -
Major Shepherd's grave, May 2016. Rest in Peace.
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Major Martin Louis Shepherd
Digital gallery of
Major Martin Louis Shepherd
Digital gallery of
Major Martin Louis Shepherd
Digital gallery of
Major Martin Louis Shepherd
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 161 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, CONTALMAISON Somme, France
Contalmaison is a village in the Department of the Somme, 6 kilometres east-north-east of Albert. The Sunken Road, from which the cemetery is named, is part of the Contalmaison-Pozieres road, and the cemetery lies a little east of the road.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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